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The club regularly attends the Head of the River Race on The Championship Course in London, with the highest finishing result of 126th in 2015. [6] The Men's squad qualified for the Temple Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in 2003 [7], 2006 [8], 2015 [9]. SCSBC are a regular competitor at Durham Regatta [10], winning the Victor Ludorum in ...
Isle of Ely Rowing Club is a rowing club on the River Great Ouse based at Kiln Lane, Prickwillow Road, Ely, Cambridgeshire. [1] The club was founded in 2004 and has experienced major national success in recent years. [2] [3]
The boat club hosts two rowing events each year in the head race season; Hampton Small Boats Head (the most popular head race of the year); and Hampton Fours and Eights Head. Each race is over the same distance of roughly 3 km, raced downstream from just below Sunbury Lock to the finish, roughly 50 metres downstream of Platts Eyot .
In 1923 the Vesta Dashes, which were a mid-summer short course competition run over three evenings, were instigated. As already stated in 1954 the club founded the Scullers’ Head of the River race. In 1981 Vesta organised the first Veterans’ Head of the River Race when then main VIIIs Head race stopped taking Veteran entries. This race is ...
The length of most head races is usually between 4 km and 10 km. Among the most well-known are the 4.25-mile (6,840 m) Head of the River Race that takes place each March on the river Thames in London, United Kingdom, [1] the 3-mile (4,800 m) Head of the Charles race held each October on the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts, United States., [2] and the 8 km Head of the Yarra race held ...
The club house marks the finish of the annual Great River Race. Taking the period since 2000 alone, PBDRC has seen members win more than 10 regattas and winter head races. The club has, at the top level, produced and enhanced international oarsmen and oarswomen: a few members of the club have represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games and ...
In September the local primary school organises a Scarecrow Fair that sees the village lined with Scarecrows for the week building up to the fair. The annual Ely New Year's Eve 10k Race, organised by Ely Runners, both begins and ends in Little Downham. The 2011 race featured 700 runners and involved one circuit of the fen around Little Downham. [9]
1648 map by J Blaeu of Cambridgeshire with the Isle of Ely. Until the 17th century, the area was an island surrounded by a large area of fenland, a type of swamp.It was coveted as an area easy to defend, and was controlled in the very early medieval period by the Gyrwas, an Anglo-Saxon tribe.